No shortage of reasons not to see Michael Moore's films

Melanie Wilson

She affirms he's biased, unobjective in his documentaries and irresponsible (one assumes she means in the handling of facts). Yet she says see his films because he is ''one of the few people out there making this kind of effort to find answers to what's going wrong in the world.'' Uh, OK. Unobjective and irresponsible, but trust him to lead us in a search for truth. 'Splain that one to me, Lucy! Where's critical discernment or logic in that contradiction? Is Ann Coulter getting that same plug when her documentary premieres?

There were, in fact, those within the Academy who protested Moore's ''Bowling for Columbine'' Oscar because of those bothersome factual discrepancies and a cut and paste approach to the film's ''surprise'' interviews, apparently altered to produce a desired effect. Politics aside, isn't it destructive to the art form when a documentary is so perverted and manipulated it's reduced to propaganda?

As for Disney's year-old decision not to distribute ''Fahrenheit 9/11'': Fear of evil Gov. Jeb's reprisals didn't keep it from distributing Moore's latest adventure in extremism, but rather the outlandishness of the film's content and an aversion to alienating their greater audience who see Moore as so unhinged by his hatred for one single individual (George Bush) that he's a step away from either a mental meltdown or throwing his Oscar, in Kerryesque fashion, over the White House fence.